bum squabble
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To discombobulate; to bamboozle or dupe.
Example Sentences
- "That African, Moses saw inside a year, was exactly the product of his own way of seeing, as much one of his products and judgments as his choice of tobacco; was, in a sense that both pleased and bum-squabbled the crusty old man, himself: a homunculus, or a distorted shadow, or — as Moses put it to his lady friend Harriet Bridgewater — his own spitting image."
- "Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?"
- "I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover."
- "Might be, but to my mind, we bum-squabbled him."